Over the weekend, I decided to ask Arsenal fans who the worst footballing person would be to be stuck in a lift with and there was one clear winner.

There is sometimes no rhyme or reason as to why we dislike someone. In other cases, it’s painfully obvious why the rest of the world thinks they’re an arse.

I didn’t run a poll. I simply asked people to name the one person who they’d hate to be stuck in a lift with and made no suggestions to help sway people’s thinking. The only rule was that it had to be a footballing person, leaving the playing field wide open.

In total, Daily Cannon Twitter followers came up with 73 names before I started this post (once I ruled out entire fanbases and residents of certain cities). Just slightly more than 50% of names got more than one mention.

A lot of people also, helpfully, included explanations for their answers. You can read those in the replies to this tweet:

You're stuck in a lift, who's the worst football person to be trapped in there with… Go….

— Daily Cannon (@DailyCannon) August 16, 2019

The 36 people named just once, in no particular order:

Now we get to the juicy ones…

These people received more than one vote but don’t crack our top 13

Now, the final 13 in reverse order

13

Tony Pulis

12

John Terry

11

Adrian Durham

10

Piers Morgan

9

Diego Costa

8

Dele Alli

7

Jose Mourinho

6

Jesse Lingard

5

Chris Sutton

4

Michael Owen

3

Joey Barton

2

Robbie Savage

1

Harry Kane

With 8% of the nominations and almost twice as many mentions as Robbie Savage is Harry Kane whom most Arsenal fans feared would drown them in spit if they were stuck in a lift with him.

Harry Kane eating a custard tart.

— paulrickett (@redwhitepaul) August 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/StephenRB69/status/1162467747357483010

Harry Kane because I did not bring an umbrella

— Chibuikem (@Multi_Coloured_) August 16, 2019

Harry Kane, imagine the spit

— The at home gooner (@GoonerArmchair) August 16, 2019

Harry kane, and I’d be the first person in the world to drown in an elevator.

— Ohlin (@ohliin) August 16, 2019

Full list including % of mentions

Person	%
Harry Kane	8.1
Robbie Savage	4.6
Joey Barton	4.0
Michael Owen	4.0
Chris Sutton	3.5
Jesse Lingard	3.5
Jose Mourinho	2.9
Dele Alli	2.9
Diego Costa	2.9
Piers Morgan	2.3
Adrian Durham	2.3
John Terry	2.3
Tony Pulis	2.3
Cristiano Ronaldo	1.7
Garth Crooks	1.7
Alan Brazil	1.7
Glenn Hoddle	1.7
Troy Deeney	1.7
Adam Johnson	1.7
Roy Keane	1.7
Tim Sherwood	1.7
Danny Mills	1.7
Alexi Lalas	1.2
Mike Dean	1.2
Jermaine Jenas	1.2
Robin van Persie	1.2
Stan Collymore	1.2
Martin Keown	1.2
Luis Suarez	1.2
Zlatan Ibrahimovic	1.2
Jim White	1.2
Jamie Redknapp	1.2
Mario Balotelli	1.2
Gary Linekar	1.2
Jamie Carragher	1.2
Stewart Robson	1.2
Graeme Souness	1.2
Tommy Sheridan	0.6
Alan Pardew	0.6
Olivier Giroud	0.6
Gerry Armstrong	0.6
James Milner	0.6
William Gallas	0.6
DT	0.6
Shkodran Mustafi	0.6
Peter Shilton	0.6
Sam Allardyce	0.6
Mark Lawrenson	0.6
Micky Quinn	0.6
Phil Neville	0.6
Dean Saunders	0.6
Alan Sugar	0.6
Ryan Giggs	0.6
Neil Lennon	0.6
Paul Merson	0.6
Adrian Chiles	0.6
Teddy Sheringham	0.6
Frank Lampard	0.6
Daniel Levy	0.6
James Milner	0.6
Jan Molby	0.6
Paul Gascoigne	0.6
Ashley Cole	0.6
Danny Rose	0.6
Eric Cantona	0.6
Mo Salah	0.6
Wayne Rooney	0.6
Mauricio Pochettino	0.6
Giovanni Trappatoni	0.6
Petr Crouch	0.6
Patrice Evra	0.6
Alan Hansen	0.6
James Beattie	0.6
Andy Townsend	0.6

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